Doris DörrieFilmography

Born:: Hanover, West Germany
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Although she is a prolific and popular director in her native Germany, the work of Doris Dörrie is seldom seen internationally. She originally dreamed of becoming an actress, but after traveling to the U.S. to study drama and film, discovered her true passion lay with directing. She then began...Read More

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Cherry Blossoms

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Elmar Wepper, Hannelore Elsner, Nadja Uhl, Maximilian Brückner, Aya Irizuki

Synopsis: An elderly husband suffering from a terminal illness begins to appreciate his wife on a whole new level after she dies suddenly during a trip to see their children and grandchildren in Berlin. Rudi is not long for this world, but only his doctor and his wife, Trudi, know how serious his condition Read More

1/16/09
How to Cook Your Life

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Espe Brown

Synopsis: Self-depreciating Zen Buddhist priest, chef, and Tessajara Bread Book author Edward Espe Brown takes over Buddhist center kitchens around the world to school viewers in the joys of organic cooking as filmmaker Doris Dörrie rolls camera to explore just how Zen wisdom and a sharp chef's knife can be Read More

10/26/07
The Fisherman and His Wife

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alexandra Maria Lara, Christian Ulmen, Simon Verhoeven, Young-Shin Kim, Eva Christian

Synopsis: A shared love of fish leads to a variety of romantic predicaments in this offbeat comedy from writer and director Doris Dörrie. Otto (Christian Ulmen) and Leo (Simon Verhoeven) are two men from Germany who have launched a successful business in which they import koi, the beautiful Japanese fish Read More

2005
Naked

Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Heike Makatsch, Benno Fürmann, Alexandra Maria Lara, Jürgen Vogel, Nina Hoss

Synopsis: Three couples with varying degrees of success in both financial and romantic matters find they know relatively little about themselves or their respective partners in director Doris Dorrie's 2002 film Naked. Successful stockbroker Dylan (Mehmet Kurtulus) and his gorgeous wife, Charlotte (Nina Read More

2002
Cosi Fan Tutte

Crew: Stage Director

Synopsis: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte gets a modern makeover in this stage version featuring Dorothea Röschmann, Katharina Kammerloher, and Hanno Müller-Brachmann in the leads, and directed for the stage by Doris Dörrie. Conductor Daniel Barenboim leads the Chor der Deutschen Staatsoper Berlin Read More

2002
Enlightenment Guaranteed

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Uwe Ochsenknecht, Anica Dobra, Ulrike Kriener, Heiner Lauterbach

Synopsis: Noted German filmmaker Doris Dorrie directs this understated comedy about two middle-aged brothers who go to study at a Zen monastery in Japan. The two brothers could not be more different. Uwe (Uwe Ochsenknecht) is a bored husband and kitchenware salesman, while Gustav (Gustav Peter Wohler) is a Read More

2000
Bin ich Schön?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Senta Berger, Gottfried John, Otto Sander, Franka Potente, Anica Dobra

Synopsis: One of Germany's most important female directors, Doris Dörrie chose the subject of the universal quest for happiness for the film Bin ich Schön?. Set in Spain and Germany, the film interlaces individual stories of broken hearts and broken dreams with aspirations of new beginnings. On a hot Read More

1998
Keiner Liebt Mich

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The characters in this German romantic comedy that follows a 30-year old single woman searching for love, have a distinctly Felliniesque quality to them. Fanny Fink desperately wants a man. Her closest male friend is Orfeo, a gay con-man who claims to be a self-taught African witch doctor. For a Read More

1994
Happy Birthday, Turke!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hansa Czypionka, Doris Kunstmann, Lambert Hamel

Synopsis: This Teutonic film noir received its first U.S. showing at the Seattle Film Festival. Hansa Czypionka plays Kemal Kayankaya, a Turk who speaks no Turkish. Raised in Germany by German parents, he is virtually man without a country, shunned not only by his fellow Turks but by native Germans. So Read More

1992
Me and Him

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Griffin Dunne, Ellen Greene, Kelly Bishop, Carey Lowell, Craig T. Nelson, Kim Flowers

Synopsis: Loosely based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, Me and Him concerns an architect (Griffin Dunne) whose penis begins giving him advice on business and love. It urges him to leave his wife and seduce a series of co-workers and acquaintances. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

8/4/89
Love in Germany

Crew: Director

1989
Geld

Crew: Director

Actors: Uwe Ochsenknecht, August Zirner, Sunnyi Melles

Synopsis: Carmen is a middle-aged housewife with two teen-aged children and a husband. The family has been living a comfortably middle-class existence. Carmen is shocked to discover that her husband has been unemployed for months without telling her about it. Desperate to pay their mounting bills, she hits Read More

1989
Wann - Wenn Nicht Jetzt?

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Hannelore Schroth, Hans-Peter Hallwachs, Frederick von Thun, Gudrun Gabriel, Elma Karlowa

Synopsis: Elisabeth (Hannelore Schroth) and her scientist husband Heinrich (Friedrich von Thum) return to Germany after a 40-year stay in the United States. There, Heinrich's old friend and rival Franz (Hans Peter Hallwachs) becomes jealous of the attention Heinrich is receiving from government officials Read More

1988
Men...

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Heiner Lauterbach, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Ulrike Kriener, Janna Marangosoff, Marie-Charlotte Schüler

Synopsis: The men in The Men are stuffy ad exec Heiner Lauterbach and nonconformist artist Uwe Oschsenknecht. Both are amorously involved with lovely Ulrike Kleiner: Lauterbach is her husband, Oschsenknecht her new lover. Deducing that Ulrike is attracted to Oschsenknecht's Bohemian lifestyle, Lauterbach Read More

7/30/86
Paradies

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Heiner Lauterbach, Katharina Thalbach, Sunnyi Melles, Hanne Wieder, Ernst-Erich Buder

Synopsis: This film by Doris Dorrie concerns two men who fight over one of their wives. Angelica (Sunny Mellis) is a fairly conventional housewife who is concerned about her marriage, because her husband Victor (Heiner Lauterbach) has been ignoring her. So Angelica calls in a remedy, her petite friend Lotte Read More

1986
King Kongs Faust

Actors: Leonard Lansink, Wolfgang Langsfeld

Synopsis: In an amusing spoof on the world of film aficionados and scholars, novice director Heiner Stadler has come up with a clever story of film intrigue and deception, all in the name of saving face. The chain of events begins with an ambitious film critic sitting in on a screening of a 1920s movie Read More

1985
Im Innern des Wals

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Janna Marangosoff, Eisi Gulp, Peter Sattmann, Ulrike Kriener

Synopsis: In this routine story about Carla (Janna Marangosoff) a young teen in search of herself as well as her long-lost mother, her conflicts with her police detective father (Peter Sattmann) set off an unpredictable train of events. After Carla's disagreements with her father become too much to handle Read More

1984
Mitten Ins Herz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Beate Jensen, Sepp Bierbichler, Gabrielle Litty, Nuran Filiz

Synopsis: Released in Germany in 1983 as Mitten Ins Herz, Straight Through the Heart was director Doris Dorrie's first feature. Beatte Jensen portrays an odd, quirky young girl. She inaugurates a romance with divorced middle-aged dentist Sepp Bierbichler. Both lovers are neurotic, and both seem to thrive on Read More

1983
Dazwischen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1981
Der Erste Walzer

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Thomas, Luisa Francia, Sepp Bierbichler

Synopsis: Max is a mechanic's apprentice, but doesn't really want to take his place in the workplace. He lives at home and has a generous and understanding mother, and on evenings and weekends his charm and good looks enable him to find company and entertainment nearly everywhere. He meets Sandy, a Read More

1979
Paula Aus Portugal

Crew: Director

1979
Alt Werden in Der Fremde

Crew: Director

1978
Ene, Mene, Mink

Crew: Director

1977